“I wholeheartedly second Dan and Mary's posts. This family is not 'illegal:' what is revolting about this case is the actions of this Home Office against Selina and her children, as well as other innocent, valued members of communities across the country.

Selina is fleeing a country where women are hounded across borders, killed or enslaved, for violating misogynistic and wildly oppressive patriarchal codes of 'honour.' She - with her small daughter - is fleeing a country where female genital mutilation - a truly horrific practice - is widespread. Selina has good reason to fear that she and her daughter will be subject to the violent misogyny that exists in Ghana.

That Selina's deportation has been halted demonstrates that it is her deportation, not she and her children, that are 'illegal.' Selina has good reason to fear returning to Africa, and to deport her would be a violation of her human rights.

As a Nottingham resident, I would be personally distressed for this family to be removed from our midst. It is families like Selina's that make this town, not racist, anti-immigrant bigotry. It is absurd to draw parallels between a young, singly-parent family and street criminals. The removal of people, including children, from their lives and friends, to a place from which they have fled and where they fear for their safety, the crime here: the street crimes that people on this board have been falsely and insultingly associating with Selina and her family are entirely irrelevant to this case.

I have deep respect for those who have fought for Selina to be allowed to continue with her life here, especially in the face of all this racialised bigotry.”

“Dan
Those super rich you are on about keep this country afloat, they own the majority of the biggest firms in the uk and therefore are the biggest employers. Would you suggest we force them away with huge tax increases which would in turn lead to them putting less into the uk coffers and taking the jobs abroad? No I dont think so.
This country has a great diversity of cultures and is the better for it, but we are only a small island. We have problems already with not being able to afford drugs for our sick and heating for our old. The economy can only cope with so many people in the system. There are many other countries much larger than ours that can cope far better than we can, the reason we attract so many immigrants is our benefit system and our over lenient judicial system. We are known worldwide as the easiest place to get housed and get money for doing nothing. I blame lily livered liberals like you for letting our country down. Maybe at some time in your life when a relative is lying ill in hospital and they cannot afford the best drugs you will think of what you and your like allowed to happen to this country.”

“The reason an injunction has been granted is down to her children and their intergration into British society. Nothing else. She has broken the law, was illegally living and working in the UK. She will now be allowed to stay because of the amount of time her children have spent he, they now established this has their home. Get out of jail free card for her. Regular tatic used by immigrants. And the truth of the matter is... Who can say no to a childs safe passage through life?”

“who mentioned colour, dan? and if what you say is true, we should stop adding to the problem while we sort out those super rich”

“people like mary spend all their lives trying to prove how nice they are, how intelligent they are, how liberal they are but it's always at others expense, and i don't just mean in money. it's always the most vulnerable members of society that have to compete for scarce resources and have to live with the consequences. in the long run, such people are actually dangerous, but are too naive to realise it.”